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Summary

Pretty much just what it sounds like, LanguageTube.org is a place to learn languages with YouTube videos.

Currently, videos are available for the Chinese, French, German, Korean, Russian and Thai languages.

The site has not been updated for a while, but let's hope a little web traffic will re-fuel the motivation to bring together language videos from all over YouTube. It is a great idea, and currently the site it totally ad-free.

Visit LanguageTube.org

Surfing about this morning and came across a helpful list of free online language courses on About.com. The first page covers Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian and Japanese. Page 2 of the list continues with Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

I was very happy to note that lots of the resources on this list are not yet on Free Language! You better believe they will be soon...

While surfing about today I can across a small but very useful list of resources for learning foreign language online for free.

Of special note (and these will be added to the Free Language main page soon) are MIT OpenCourseWare for Foreign Language and Literature and Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Intiative (French).

Got an email the other day from the person that runs the Save Tanii Website. Tanii is an endangered minority ethnic language of the Apatani people of the Ziro plateau in the Lower Subsansiri district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Here is an excerpt from the Save Tanii website:

During the last 50 years, tremendous change in culture, custom and tradition has taken place on Ziro plateau. Today the last serious point of modernization is that the young Tanii (Apatani) generation is not anymore able to understand its own tradition, nor the terms or words quoted in our heritage language. Let us save Tanii culture, let us teach and learn Tanii language.

It is, indeed, a sad thing to lose a language. I wish the best to this project and hope that it succeeds in bringing some attention to the language and culture of the Apatani people.